I wanted to watch this Joy Division documentary because the first one I saw was so bad I thought it couldn't be worse so I was glad that it was pretty good. It was a straight forward chronological re-telling of the Joy Division myth but straight from the those closest to the music. They had lengthy interviews with band members, record producer, manager, Annik, Ian's girlfriend, and other industry people on the scene at the time and had a direct connection with Joy Division. Ian's widow wasn't in the film but extracts from her book were included. It was well researched, a bit graphic-heavy, but had a good pace, great archive footage and a good narration. I felt some of the graphics were unnecessary, especially the kind of solarised shapes moving over archive footage of live recordings of the band. It got in the way a bit. Most of it though was well produced and used to good effect. The story of Joy Division (well Ian Curtis really) is an interesting one, however, the film didn't go beyond what most TV documentaries do. It was pretty formulaic in terms of its structure and when you've watched too many 'factuals' on iPlayer in a short space of time, they tend to blend into one massive talking head.
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